Industry Relations Lead - College Support Program

ABOUT US:

Avanti Fellows is dedicated to empowering students from low-income and marginalized communities across India in STEM by providing them with competitive exam preparation and resources to excel in these fields. Part of our mission is to bridge the gender gap in STEM education and careers, ensuring that every girl has the chance to pursue her interests and achieve her potential.

The Role:

The Industry Relations Lead plays a key role in Avanti's College Support program - a program for first generation low income (FGLI) learners going to top colleges across the country focusing on increasing their career outcomes.

You will be expected to work with partners across a wide variety of industries, donors, corporate organizations, and startups to maximise internship and placement opportunities for FGLI students in India's top colleges.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain working relationships with recruitment teams of partner organizations and gauge hiring requirements
• Analyse s to inform the program team on eligibility and skill requirements for internships and jobs in partner organizations
• Gain in depth understanding of the hiring processes for said roles, to inform the program team on designing interventions that can help FGLI students get selected
• Develop and maintain a placement portfolio of suitable candidates for relevant roles that can be shared with leaders and recruitment teams of partner organizations
• Work with team members towards smooth conduction of shortlisting and recruitment process for suitable candidates
• Provide high-level updates to partner organizations on recruitment pool and ongoing processes
• Develop and maintain tracking mechanisms for candidates who have been shortlisted, selected and placed
• Conduct outreach to organizations outside existing partnerships to evangelise our effort for maximising career outcomes for FGLI students to get internship and job opportunities opened up

What You'll Actually Do:

• Travel to offices of partner organizations to meet leaders and recruitment teams
• Analyse documents to prepare a charter of skills and other eligibility requirements
• Work with Avanti team members to align on skill requirements to help students get shortlisted
• Work with Avanti team members to help students complete various steps of selection processes
• Prepare Placement profile documents that can be shared with potential recruiters
• Create and update dashboards and trackers to help recruitment teams track candidates in process
• Stay involved in hiring and onboarding of new team members in the project

Who We're Looking For:

• Strong entrepreneurial inclination and self-starter tendency
• Strong drive to learn and grow
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong ownership and work ethic
• Expertise in professional tools like Google Workspace
• Professional communication skills, stakeholder management wisdom

What Probably Won't Work:

• Strict limitations to JD for responsibilities - As an organization we deal with problem statements that have not been picked up by the industry and our scale and scope occasionally demands solutioning and owning areas that may not be covered in this
• Avoiding travel when necessary
• Avoiding human interaction
• Blind reliance on AI tools to produce output. We encourage the use of AI to enhance planning and output but believe that first principles thinking, human interaction, discussion, alignment and conflict resolution is what drives progress

What's Hard About This Job:

• Understanding and solving for new problem statements
• Unstructured and occasionally unavailable data that demands digging in, assumptions and extrapolation
• Aligning team members and external stakeholders

Why This Role Matters:

• Over more than a decade we have sent thousands of Govt. School students to top colleges across the country. We can do better in guiding these students to high growth career pathways and providing them with support in college that makes them career ready. This role is at the centrestage of this project.